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Show Wednesday, Decembers, 1976 Page? STAY TUNED Guess what happened to ski instruction while we were sleeping? They automated it. , I'm not kidding. It's done by a machine these days. Ypu watch, they will soon be forming bread lines in base lodges for out-of-work instructors. "Skier, can you spare a dime?" will be the battle cry of the snows. '; ' : ' There will be a line of pickets in the parking lots wearing Bogner parkas, with a dark spot where the resort logo used to be stitched. Humans have been removed from the instructor's rank. Machines have taken over. Oh. You though it couldn't happen in skiing, did you? Well, you've got another thing coming. What makes you think we couldn't get an assembly' line for ski instruction? It happened and you didn't even notice.. The phone rang. It was our friend Valerie. She had gone skiing for the very first time at Vermont's Stratton Mountain and was calling Peggi, my advanced-early-novice wife who has been skiing for three years and is now progressing to the stage of know-it-all who tolerates the whole thing. "Hi," said Valerie. "I'm a skier now." "Oh, yeah," replied my wife, "Who was your instructor? Was he tall, with wavy blond hair and blue eyes and did he say 'ben-zee-knees'?" ' "Well, not exactly," Val replied. "He was an 'it.' And, 'it' was short and squat and had tentacles like an octopus." ' "Val," Peggi screamed into the phone, "Watch your language. Craig writes a family column." "Well, I didn't say anything bad," she replied. "Ifonest, my instructor looked sort of like an octopus.. .all hands." "Sounds like every instructor I ever met," Peggi replied. I'm sorry I eavesdropped, but this was an interesting conversation and I thought I'd report it to you. "J always, thought Stratton had all those good looking Austrians they call the 'Boys' and they play those long horns and sing yodeling songs when they're not teaching." "All I can tell you is my instructor went around in Circles all day," Val said. x yeah, that's a ski instructor for you. I know what you mean," my expert replied. "I don't think you fpllow NASTAR To Be In 75 Ski Expansion best describes the upcoming NASTAR season as 75 ski areas throughout the nation plan to participate in this recrea tional ski racing program during 1976-77. Included in this total are 16 ski areas offering NASTAR for the first time to the skiing public. "The main reason for these areas incorporating NASTAR into the overall ski program is more and more recreational skiers want to participate in our national standard race program," states Bob Beattie, NASTAR commissioner. "In addition, the ski areas recognize the ways NASTAR can be used as a successful tool in ' expanding . their marketing and promotional efforts," continues Beattie. . The ' new NASTAR areas will include, by regions the following ski areas: In the Rocky Mountain Region: J!if fhe ski business for 16 Dir HID I del loateseenj Btaujant ( EAT MPlRA I with Craig AKschul ; Areas years, Red River, NM will hold NASTAR for the first; time this year. Race days are Thursday and Sunday. Red River ski school director Drew Judycki attributes their decision to run . NASTAR to the "increasing demand from our skiers for a recreational racing program. Now in its seventh year of. operation; Grand Targhee, "needed to expand its activities and decided to join NASTAR," according to Rene Farwig, ski school director'NASTAR fits into our program perfectly as a way of expanding our activities activi-ties for our guests and local recreational skiers. We'll be '? holding races on Wed. and Sun.," Farwig continued. Red River and Grand Targhee join the following NASTAR areas: Aspen Highlands, Big Sky of Montana, Mon-tana, Breckenridge, Colo., Buttermilk, Co., Copper Mt., Co., Crested Butte, Jackson 3K A- HJILW 11 J I 2X At the Mountain "A ski machine?" Peggi said. "You mean like they call the Cincinnati Reds the 'Big Red Machine'?" "No," Val said. "This is a machine that looks sort of like a merry-go-round without the horses. It has bars that come out and they build little bumps we go over to give us a feeling of skiing while holding on the machine's arms so we can't fall. It goes slow at first.. .then faster and faster." "You mean you learn to ski and you can't fall? And I had to learn from a blond wavy-haired type," Peggi asked in disbelief. "Right Peggi, I'm an expert now. ..an absolute expert. By the end of my first day on skis I could go around six circles and bend my knees 16 ways.'.' Peggi was impressed. So was I. "Just one question," she asked as the conversation ended. "Did the machine buy you dinner?" I got, to thinking about the future of this type of thing and got worried about losing the warmth and friendleness of our instructors. Imagine what can happen in the future, when the machine is perfected and it is programmed with a personality. l ean picture it now. The class surrounds the machine and stands alongside each tentacle, I mean arm. A charming Austrian voice comes out of the center speaker system. v "Alo," it says. "I am your ski machine. You may call me Hans. Today, ve learn how to schki. You will do vat I zay. Place your hanz on the tentacles, er, I mean arms. I vill turn myself on now." That last line is always good for a laugh from the lady skiers crowding around the teaching machine. We all want change to be slow, you know. "You vill now ben-zee-knees. Goot. You vill go over little bumps called moguls. Upz and downz...downz and upz. Goot. Very goot...I am prout of you." "Tomorrow, ven you come to klass, ve will learn the wedelyn turn and a '360' spin and then ze next day, you vill ski from the top of ze mountain. You are now experts and put zess patch I give you that sez 'Machine Made.'" I'm not sure where all this will end. But Valerie's conversation about ski machines and the alarming number of news releases arriving from ski resorts telling about their mechanization plans, worries me. : If something is going to look me in the eye and have 0 : the nerve to say, "ben-zeeknees," J; want tQ.be ablei . The Park High basketball to iklMMiifmtiskiWSMp oEixsteara' took to thrwad last ; V ,:-,V niweek and continued its . twinning ways as they dump- IRONWOOD d Altamont 70-66 in a Raced Hole, Wyo., Kestone, Co., Park City, Ut., Snowbird, Ut., Snowmass, Colorado, Steamboat, Sun Valley, Taos Ski Valley, Telluride, Vail and Winter Park. Special X-C Clinic Redated For Telemark Marty Hall, U.S Ski Team Cross Country Coach announced that the USOC funded special cross-country coaches clinic scheduled for Cooke City, MT through late November has been rescheduled re-scheduled due to snow conditions. Telemark, WI has been designated as the new site for the clinic to be held December 14-17. open at SOO fluffy omelettes Tostgels, lox & cream olieese not Danish oof fee , ' juice PRACTICE Iron wood, MI has been designated the site of the last pre-season practice for U.S. Ski Team - Jumpers and Nordic Combined team meip bers, according to John Bower, Nordic Director of the Team. "I'm a bii concerned that we are getting get-ting on the snow later than we had hoped," said Bower. "We're meeting at Ironwood from November 23 to December De-cember 8 to let our jumpers get some on snow training on Ironwood's new 50 meter hill. The jump is an innovation in design and should get our athletes primed for the larger complexes com-plexes they'll be competing on later." lit1 rfr tl Miners Continue Impressive Showing; Altamont and Manilla Defeated CENTER MM Ahrey was or tn week." in two games he had 31 rebounds and ; 27 points. Wednesday tut and then came from behind Friday night to nip Manila 85-78 . in an overtime thriller. Rally Trailing Altamont by one at half time, the Miners broke loose in the third quarter and hung on in the late going as they registered their third victory of the young season. "We got the ball out quickly and our fast break was really working well,". Park High Coach Ron Stepan said of his team's second half explosion. Alvey to Berriochoa The Miners successful running run-ning game Wednesday night started at one end of the court with center Mike Alvey snaring one of his 15 rebounds and ended at the other end with Chuck Berriochoa Berr-iochoa dropping in two of his game high 22 points. On Friday, the local cagers took the floor against a respectable Manila quintet and were almost blown out of the gym before they had a chance to work up a sweat. Spotting their host a 16-5 advantage in the opening minutes, the Miners went to a man-to-man defense and scrambled back into the contest. Trailing by only two at intermission, Park High appeared to be in a good position for the stretch. The Red and White's pressure defense, however, began to take its toll as Alvey "and Bruce MacNaughtan fouled out early in the fourth quarter. Rising to the occassion, Mark Gunderson, Tim Poly-chronis, Poly-chronis, John Lambert and Scott Toly came off the bench and, according to their coach's analysis "did a super job." Obviously not surprised by his team's impressive display of depth, Coach Stepan reminded the Newspaper, "I always told you I had ten guys who can do the job." Overtime With seconds remaining and Park High down by two, voted Park High's "Player Polychronis went back up ' with a big offensive rebound 1 and was fouled. He knotted -the score at 76 despite the foul but, missing his chance for added heroics, the senior forward failed on his free throw attempt and sent the game into overtime. Having come too far to be denied, the Miners ripped into their opponents for 9 quick points and registered an 85 to 78 victory. Besides the fine showing of the Red and White reserves, Howard Davidson's 21 point performance left little doubt that the sophomore sensation has come of age on the basketball court. Dugway Downed Although Park City only played two games last week, many of their fans claim they scored a third victory Friday when the Miner's Wednesday Wednes-day victim, Altamont, upset Region Nine favorite Dug-. Dug-. way. J.V.'s Drop Two Despite some fine individual individ-ual play, the Park High j.v.'s came up on the short end of close scores twice last week as they fell to Altamont 46-40 and Manila 54-53. After pulling out to a 20 point lead against Manila Saturday night, the j.v.'s ' second one point loss of the season was a particularly bitter pill to swallow. With classmates Howard Davidson and Brad Dearden already playing key rolls on the varsity team, the j.v.'s future' prospects are surely much brighter than their one and four record might indicate. Scoring Results: ' Varsity vs. Altamont Alvey-10; MacNaughtan-12; Davidson-. Davidson-. 14; Berriochoa-22; Goff-4; Toly-4; Gunderson-4. Varsity vs. Manila -Alvey-17; MacNaughtan-6; David-son-21; Berriochoa-9; Goff-5 Toly-4; Gunderson-2; Lam-bert-10; Polychronis-6; Dear-den-4. Jr. Varsity vs. Altamont Dearden-6; S. Polychronis-2; Yates-l;s Cowin-8 ; King-9; Wright-1; Johnson-12; Jr. " Vanity vs. Manila -Deardin -5, Polychronis-14; Cowm-7; King-8 Wright-3; Hunt-2; Johnson-14. By Peter Na jar Wolfe's Repair Shop On the wall in the repair of the services we provide. On the list the most asked about item is cants. Cants are wedges placed between the ski and the bottom of the boot to allow the ski to ride flat. If one looks at his leg in a natural standing position, he will notice that the lower leg does not meet the ankle in a straight line from the hip. The ankle corrects this angle and allows the foot to stay flat on the ground, The ski boot of today is like a cast. It considerably limits the lateral movement of the ankle. The result is that when the foot is in a ski boot it will apply more weight either on the inside or outside edge of the boot. To correct this, a wedge is placed between the ski and the boot so that the ski will ride flat on the snow. . Ski boot manufacturers have become aware that most skiers need cants. They have corrected for cants by tilting the shaft of the boots for what they consider to be the need of the average skier. Cants differ from boot to boot so when buying a new pair of boots you should have your cants checked. To decide if you need cants, think of your skiing style. Do you ski with your knees together and your feet apart? Do you still make stem turns after thousands of lessons? Do you "hip" your turns? Or, ' do you lean into turns? All these could indicate a need for cants. A quick way to see if you need cants is to stand in your ski boots on a smooth hard floor. If you weight is on the inside or outside edge of your ski boot, you will need cants. When you roll your knees, as if you were changing edges, the out at the same t.ime., jf There are a number of ways to cant. The most common way to place the cant under the building and anti-friction device. The cants should be in two sections, one under the toe piece extending under the anti-friction device and one under the heel piece. A single strip cant running from toe to heel piece should not be used since it may buckle when the ski is flexed and hamper release. The only disadvantage disadvant-age to using strip cants is that once you do become accustomed to cants you will not be able to use uncanted skis. The solution is to cant the boot. This can be done by grinding the boot to the proper cant using a planer or belt sander. This can only be done with soles that are thick enough. No mqre than one-eighth of an inch should be ground off the boot, more may weaken the sole. Make sure that the top edge of the boot is parallel with the bottom edge. A few boots can be canted by tilting the shaft of the boot. Scott boots replace their hinge pivot pin with an eccentric pivot pin to tilt the shaft. 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